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Star Trek anyone?

I am a new edition to the Trek family, and wanted to know if they are any Trekkies here! I personally really enjoy the reboots, but TOS is still charming and funny. What do you guys like about Star Trek? (p.s Spirk is my guilty pleasure...you don't have to comment on that, just throwing it out there)

I wen poof for awhile, huh? Sorry, I guess I just kinda...dropped off. School started.

When now I'm back, have more anime under my belt, and am ready to join you all again.

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What I like about Star Trek? Chris Pine.

OK, but seriously, I haven't watched the other films except for the reboots and Star Trek Nemesis. Though I have to admit the reason I decided to watch the films is because Chris Pine is in it, and when I did I was like, "Oh yeah, this is actually good." So I decided to put the first Star Trek films on my watchlist. Am I a fan? No, I'm not, but we'll see after I watch all of them.

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Originally Posted by GaHoolianGirl100

I am a new edition to the Trek family, and wanted to know if they are any Trekkies here! I personally really enjoy the reboots, but TOS is still charming and funny. What do you guys like about Star Trek? (p.s Spirk is my guilty pleasure...you don't have to comment on that, just throwing it out there)

I've been a fan for a while. Did you know that a lot of episodes are availible free on the Star Trek website? Also you can combine your animation and Trek fandoms in the animated Star Trek series. Although I haven't watched that and can't say if it's actually good.

I'm not sure what I was origionally a fan. I guess I just liked the stories. Eventually I think I came to enjoy the Treknology and the sort of scenarios you could come up with, and I appreciated their ability to tackle various complex situations by having them play out with aliens as opposed to touching on the controversies directly.

In recent times I've come to appreciate that as an Engineer with a family most media isn't "for" me or make engineers look good. Heck even though I listen to it, most pop music is if anything making fun of my lifestyle. Trek stands out for having Engineers and Science officers so central and important.

The US government should probably start sponsering the series. That would be a better move towards solving our STEM major shortage than some of the stupid campaigns they currently fund.

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I watched Star Trek before the reboot. I hate it now.

Originally Posted by sunnyside

In recent times I've come to appreciate that as an Engineer with a family most media isn't "for" me or make engineers look good. Heck even though I listen to it, most pop music is if anything making fun of my lifestyle. Trek stands out for having Engineers and Science officers so central and important.

The US government should probably start sponsering the series. That would be a better move towards solving our STEM major shortage than some of the stupid campaigns they currently fund.

TV isn't made for smart people anymore, not because the network brass are money grubbing and evil, but because the demographic has shifted. Smart people pretty much don't watch TV anymore, preferring interactive media instead (such as the very internet you're reading this post on). It's why discovery channel is now "the explosion channel", and sci-fi channel no longer shows sci-fi.

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I was five, six, seven, and eight when I watched "Star Trek" and the Cartoon on Nick-at-Night and Nickelodeon respectively back in the mid-Eighties. It was when The Next Generation first came on, and I got hooked. I never saw "Enterprise" though. Scott Bakula just never got sold to me as a Star Trek Captain.

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Yeah, I'm a Trekkie. I find Star Trek to be an interesting series for it's imagination, story and characters. Though even I do admit I tire of it now and then but a fan none the less. Deep Space Nine would have to be the favorite out of the five. The reboots are a okay, mean to they look amazing and enjoyable if your a fan or not, but its confuses me every time as the story is somewhat different to the original. Suppose thats how you get new folks into the series but I don't know.